CRAFTSMAN V20 Cordless Lopper, 6 inch, Battery and Charger Included (CMCCSL621D1)

CLAMPS DOWN! Perfect for clearing trails and overgrowth. Vines and thicket don't stand a chance against this saw. Trees, branches, anything you can fit in its Jaws!

I bought this saw for my wife to trim our trees as well as work up the smaller wood and branches. She's proficient with a chain saw but it was not as easy to use on the smaller stuff. This Craftsman "alligator" saw is amazing and easy to use! It's also safe because you have to use both hands to engage the saw so one's hands are out of the way. We bought two extra batteries thinking we would outwork the the batteries. Nope! The batteries last really well, cut after cut after cut! Your hands might get tired from squeezing the two handles before the batteries need to be changed. We put oil in the blade oiler every time we change a battery, and many time more frequently, depending on how hard we we using the saw. The little bottle is NOT quality; it leaks oil all over the place. I read another reviewer who just manually oils the chain with an oil can. We may have to go to that.This was a bit heavy for my wife at first until she built up her arm and shoulder strength. She 's only 5'6", so not a huge woman; she also used elbow supports/pads because for the first few times, her elbows really ached. Now that she uses it more regularly, slowly working down our brush piles, she does fine.She has not had the chain jump off the blade but it has gotten loose on her.A battery operated saw is not nearly as loud as a regular chainsaw so there's less annoyance for the neighbors.Yes, with the extra batteries, this was a $200 purchase, which admittedly was a bit steep. However, it was more than worth it! This is a GREAT piece of equipment! 5 stars!!!

Wade into a brush pile with these things and you'll be amazed. You can choose which branch to cut very easily, as the blade guard is shaped perfectly for pushing it in there just right, opening it up a bit, then chomping through. You can chomp chomp chomp right through the pile quickly. These are not lightweight though. It's a good arm/shoulder workout, but a lot of work that can be accomplished in a short period of time. Very easy to use. I do not use the oiler. Oil the chain from an oil can. Battery life is plenty unless you're super human. My only complaint is the double triggers. I know they did this for some kind of safety reason, but really, it just gets in the way. You'd have to really screw up to hurt yourself with this tool, and in the course of chomping branches and brush it's not always convenient to have both hands placed exactly central on the handles so you can hold both triggers in. Often the tool is oriented so the handles are one above the other (cutting a horizontal branch) and it gets awkward if you don't have the option of standing to the side. I plan on eliminating this "feature" this winter and having either trigger turn it on. If you have wooded property to maintain, and brush to deal with, this tool should be in your quiver.

I have bought 10 of these loopers because the company i work for wanted to incorporate them into our process. They have all failed within a couple of days. The cuts we make with this tool are all identical 2" x 2" wood.

This little chain saw does a great job doing what no other tool in my arsenal does as well. I do a lot of tree and bush trimming every fall on our 1-1/4 acre lot. We live in AZ with an assortment of native bushes and trees with stiff, sometimes thorned branches. We load them in a utility trailer to take to the dump and want to compact them as much as possible. Although other chain saws like a pole saw accomplish the major branch trimming this little saw enables us to cut the crooks off the branches before loading them into the trailer which allows them to be lined up much better. Now we get more than twice the number of branches in each load saving trips and dump fees.The saw is lightweight and easy to use GENTLY. Light pressure to allow the chain to cut is the key as it is a small lightly powered chain saw. Doing this allows it to cut nicely with a sharp chain. The clamping action of the gripper jaw against the chain provides a slip-free cut (I really like ! ) that keeps the branch from jumping around like a regular unsupported chain saw does. The oiler is not really not a metered chain oiler. It's just a hole to squirt oil on the chain. The supplied oil bottle is useless. It leaks. Get a small squirt bottle with a twist top that doesn't leak (I used a bottle that "wood sweller" (for loose chair leg joints) that I'd used up.) and give the chain a small squirt just before using it and when you no longer see any oil left on the chain during use. For me that was only twice on a trailer load of small branch crook-trimming ,using a bigger saw for anything over an inch or so.The battery last MUCH longer than expected. I never used the second battery on a single trailer load and never used more than half the battery indicated by the lights on the battery when pressing the battery button - a nice addition.Overall it was a good purchase with no major drawbacks including the manufacturer's choice of oiling hole I found in hindsight, for my uses, not to be a problem.I tool away one star for the stupidly-useless oil bottle that even the addition of an o-ring wouldn't fix.